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chunder.

Vomit.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈtʃandə/Australia/ˈtʃɐndə/New-Zealand/ˈtʃʌndə(ɹ)/UK
  1. Vomit.

    Commonwealth · Ireland · UK · countable · slang · uncountable
  2. An act of vomiting.

    Commonwealth · Ireland · UK · countable · slang · uncountable
  3. Heavy, sticky snow that makes snowsports difficult.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Unknown and debated origin. Possibly a shortening of Chunder Loo, itself a presumed rhyming slang for spew (said to be derived from the cartoon character “Chunder Loo of Akim Foo”, drawn by Norman Lindsay for a series of boot-polish advertisements in the early 1900s), but the rhyming slang usage is not actually recorded. Alternatively, possibly from the nautical phrase "*Watch under!" ("Look out below!"), used to warn people on lower decks that someone above was vomiting over the side of the ship, though this is likewise unsubstantiated and may simply be due to folk etymology. Also possibly from tunder, a dialectal pronunciation of thunder; or borrowed from Scots *junder, junner, chunner (“to bump, knock against", also "to break or spill the contents of”), a frequentative form of jund, chund, jundie (“to jog, jostle, annoy, upset”). First attested in c. 1950.

verb/ˈtʃandə/Australia/ˈtʃɐndə/New-Zealand/ˈtʃʌndə(ɹ)/UK
  1. To throw up, to vomit, particularly from excessive alcohol consumption.

    Australia · New-Zealand · UK · slang
Where this word comes from

Unknown and debated origin. Possibly a shortening of Chunder Loo, itself a presumed rhyming slang for spew (said to be derived from the cartoon character “Chunder Loo of Akim Foo”, drawn by Norman Lindsay for a series of boot-polish advertisements in the early 1900s), but the rhyming slang usage is not actually recorded. Alternatively, possibly from the nautical phrase "*Watch under!" ("Look out below!"), used to warn people on lower decks that someone above was vomiting over the side of the ship, though this is likewise unsubstantiated and may simply be due to folk etymology. Also possibly from tunder, a dialectal pronunciation of thunder; or borrowed from Scots *junder, junner, chunner (“to bump, knock against", also "to break or spill the contents of”), a frequentative form of jund, chund, jundie (“to jog, jostle, annoy, upset”). First attested in c. 1950.

verb/ˈtʃandə/Australia/ˈtʃɐndə/New-Zealand/ˈtʃʌndə(ɹ)/UK
  1. Of a motor vehicle: to rumble loudly, to roar.

  2. To grumble, complain.

    New-England
Where this word comes from

Perhaps by confusion with chunter.

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